SaaS
Pulley
Pulley, the venture-backed cap table and equity management platform for startups, will shut down and cease all operations and services on 8 December 2026, directing customers to migrate to Carta under an exclusive partnership
departs 8 Dec 2026
Quick answers
- Is it true that Pulley cap table platform is shutting down — all operations and services cease on 8 December 2026?
- Yes. Pulley has officially announced it, effective 8 Dec 2026. Pulley — an equity-management and cap table platform used by startups to track ownership, issue equity, run 409A valuations and manage stakeholder records — is shutting down entirely.
- When does it take effect?
- 8 Dec 2026. Verified against the vendor's own announcement.
- What should I use instead?
- Log in to your Pulley account well before 8 December 2026 to check account status and, if eligible, redeem the assisted-migration offer to Carta that Pulley is directing customers toward.
What this means for you
Pulley — an equity-management and cap table platform used by startups to track ownership, issue equity, run 409A valuations and manage stakeholder records — is shutting down entirely. A notice on its own homepage states plainly that "Pulley will be shutting down and will cease all operations and services on 12/8/26." This is a full company shutdown, not a feature retirement: after 8 December 2026 the product and its services stop. The company says it has entered an exclusive partnership with Carta so that "Pre-IPO companies can still access market-leading equity management capabilities," and that existing Pulley customers may qualify for a limited-time offer and assisted migration to Carta. The exposure is concentrated and serious: a cap table is the legal record of who owns a company, and equity data, option-grant records, 409A history and stakeholder access all live inside the platform being switched off. Anyone relying on Pulley for equity administration needs to export their records and stand up a replacement before the cutoff, and anyone with API or automated integrations pointed at Pulley needs to retire them. Because this is a hosted SaaS platform rather than a package or image, it leaves no fingerprint a code scanner can catch — the deadline has to be tracked, not detected.
Where to go
Log in to your Pulley account well before 8 December 2026 to check account status and, if eligible, redeem the assisted-migration offer to Carta that Pulley is directing customers toward. Regardless of whether you move to Carta or another equity-management provider, export everything Pulley holds while the platform is still live: the full cap table, security/option ledgers, stakeholder records, 409A valuation reports and any board or compliance documents — a cap table is a legal record and reconstructing it after the service is gone is far harder than exporting it now. If you have automated processes or integrations calling Pulley, plan to repoint or retire them. Do not leave the migration to the final weeks: assisted-migration offers and support capacity typically thin out as a shutdown date approaches.
- Carta — Pulley's named migration partner; existing customers may qualify for an assisted-migration offer
- Other equity-management / cap table platforms (e.g. AngelList, Vestd, or a qualified startup attorney's cap table tooling) if Carta is not the right fit
Pulley, the venture-backed cap table and equity management platform used by startups to track ownership, issue and manage equity grants, run 409A valuations and keep stakeholder records, is shutting down completely. The notice sits on its own homepage: “Pulley will be shutting down and will cease all operations and services on 12/8/26.”
This is a whole-company shutdown, not a single feature being retired. After 8 December 2026 the product and its services stop. Pulley says it has entered an exclusive partnership with Carta so that pre-IPO companies “can still access market-leading equity management capabilities,” and that existing customers may qualify for a limited-time offer and assisted migration to Carta. It thanks customers for “the past 7 years of support and partnership.”
The reason this matters more than a typical SaaS sunset is what a cap table is: the authoritative record of who owns a company. Equity ownership, option-grant ledgers, 409A valuation history, board and compliance documents, and stakeholder access all live inside the platform that is being switched off. If you administer a startup’s equity on Pulley, this is a legal-records migration, not just a tooling change.
The move to make now is twofold. First, log in to your Pulley account to check its status and, if you’re eligible, start the assisted-migration offer to Carta that Pulley is steering customers toward. Second — and regardless of where you land — export everything while the platform is still live: the full cap table, security and option ledgers, stakeholder records, 409A reports, and any board documents. Reconstructing a cap table after the service is gone is painful and error-prone; exporting it today is not. If you have any automated integrations pointed at Pulley, plan to retire or repoint them before the cutoff. And don’t wait for the final weeks — assisted-migration capacity and support tend to thin out as the date closes in.
Because Pulley is a hosted platform rather than a package or container image, there’s no fingerprint a code scanner can flag. This one has to be tracked as a date on the calendar, which is exactly what this entry is for.
Entry changelog
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- — Entry created from Pulley's official homepage shutdown notice (pulley.com), which states the company "will be shutting down and will cease all operations and services on 12/8/26" and points customers to an exclusive partnership with Carta for assisted migration. Date recorded exactly as stated (8 December 2026). Surfaced via Hacker News discussion; written from the primary source, not the discussion. No detect: fingerprint — a hosted SaaS shutdown leaves nothing a repo scanner can match.
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